So Globetrotter games are not "fixed," because fixed means the teams collude to choose a predetermined winner. Do they play under different rules than the NBA? Sure, but so does the And1 Mixtape tour. That doesn't mean their games are fixed, either.
NO parent is paying money to bring their kids to the game to have them leave upset because the "main attraction" (hell what it's named after THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTER's) are going to lose on that night!!
Let's keep it real! They aren't touring to lose games. It's a "family show" in that they advertise bring your kids to the game to have a great time.....not so we will lose and they will cry and be miserable on the drive home. It's to bring them to the game to see the trick shots and us WIN the game and everyone goes home happy. It is absolutely colluded before the games between all the parties that the Globetrotter's win. That's the ONLY WAY THE TOURING SHOW MAKES $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$! And the only way these guys have been able to stay around forever. If they have to give "max effort" every night traveling on the road and paying real games, shit they would have a .500 record probably!!
Have they lost before....yes. But I am sure it was part of a "big storyline" which had a payoff of some sort as for the reason.
Its Roller Derby, Pro Wrestling....all fake and scripted entertainment. Nothing wrong with it as it's a kid's show the Globetrotter's so make the kiddies happy, but let's not spin it another way.
Of those 330 loses only 12 have occurred in the last 45 years. Maybe in 1928 the game wasn't fixed, today it is.
Of course.... someone in a suit realized along the way nobody is paying to watch them lose, they gotta win to keep the show going otherwise it's just a bad basketball game and the audience isn't entertained and will stop coming. Scripted....Fake...call it what you want but none of those players on either team leaves the locker-room to head out onto the court without knowing the "OUTCOME OF TONIGHT's GAME." The players on BOTH Teams know where their bread is buttered and want to keep the cash cow going. So one team MUST win and the other must make them look good in winning.
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